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Our Focus Areas
We partner with education organizations dedicated to accelerating student outcomes across three areas.
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School Readiness

Ensure more children enter kindergarten ready to thrive, setting the trajectory for their futures.

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School Success

Increase the number of kindergarten through eighth grade students demonstrating meaningful growth and proficiency in literacy and math.

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Future Readiness

Help students develop the cognitive skills, meaningful connections, and sense of agency needed to thrive in a rapidly changing world.

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Our Grantees

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Organization
Description
Grant Amount
Grant Period
Focus Area

Organization

EdReports

Description

EdReports.org provides reviews of K-12 instructional materials and supports districts/states in selecting HQIM

Grant Amount

$1,500,000

Grant Period

September 1, 2025 -
August 31, 2027

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

EdReports

Description

To amplify EdReports’ impact and influence on HQIM adoption by expanding educator usage and growing their revenue earned by technical assistance

Grant Amount

$1,500,000

Grant Period

September 1, 2023 -
August 31, 2025

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

EdTech Insiders

Description

To update a map tracking GenAI usage in education that fosters learning and supports the growth of impactful AI in education.

Grant Amount

$50,000

Grant Period

August 1, 2025 -
January 31, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

EdTech Insiders

Description

To build a map of GenAI usage in education that fosters learning and supports the growth of impactful AI in education.

Grant Amount

$100,000

Grant Period

August 1, 2024 -
July 31, 2025

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Education Data Center

Description

To launch the most comprehensive national database of K-12 attendance data.

Grant Amount

$150,000

Grant Period

June 1, 2026 -
August 31, 2027

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Education First Consulting, LLC

Description

To create in-person and virtual forums for teacher workforce funders to align strategies, increase funding to high-impact orgs, and influence favorable policies/practices that support a sustainable teacher workforce.

Grant Amount

$25,000

Grant Period

March 1, 2025 -
February 28, 2026

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Education First Consulting, LLC

Description

Create in-person and virtual forums for 20+ teacher workforce grantmakers to align strategies, increase funding to high-impact orgs, and influence favorable policies/practices that support a sustainable teacher workforce.

Grant Amount

$25,000

Grant Period

February 1, 2024 -
January 31, 2025

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Education Northwest

Description

To support an externally-conducted RCT that will estimate the impact of Springboard’s literacy supports on children’s foundational reading skills in kindergarten to third grade.

Grant Amount

$1,250,000

Grant Period

April 1, 2025 -
December 31, 2027

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Education Resource Strategies, Inc.

Description

To prototype Education Resource Strategies’ lower-cost pathway for state/district leaders to create the conditions for effective strategic staffing model implementation.

Grant Amount

$300,000

Grant Period

March 1, 2025 -
August 31, 2026

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Education Resource Strategies, Inc.

Description

To build and refine the tools leaders need to improve the teaching profession for the long-term.

Grant Amount

$921,000

Grant Period

November 1, 2021 -
October 31, 2024

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Edunomics at Georgetown University

Description

To improve expenditure data on teacher PL investments and produce timely ROI data tools to support strategic financial decision making by state and district leaders.

Grant Amount

$400,000

Grant Period

September 1, 2024 -
August 31, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Ensemble Learning

Description

To strengthen Ensemble Learning’s evidence capabilities to drive program improvement and impact.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Grant Period

July 1, 2025 -
June 30, 2026

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

ETS Research

Description

To enable ETS to extend its Skills for the Future initiative into middle school by developing and validating learning progressions, authentic assessment tasks, and a growth-oriented skills record for collaboration.

Grant Amount

$651,000

Grant Period

March 1, 2026 -
August 31, 2027

Focus Area

Other

Organization

EXPLR

Description

To revive the National STEM Festival to increase the visibility of joyful and rigorous STEM learning.

Grant Amount

$100,000

Grant Period

November 1, 2023 -
October 31, 2024

Focus Area

Future Readiness

Organization

FIND-PD

Description

To advance FIND-PD’s innovation pipeline and build early evidence of impact and sustainability through course completion, AI-enabled coaching pilots, and growth strategy testing.

Grant Amount

$380,000

Grant Period

June 1, 2025 -
May 31, 2026

Focus Area

School Readiness

Organization

FIND-PD

Description

To support FIND-PD in developing a scalable product, testing and refining its growth strategy, and building its revenue model.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Grant Period

June 1, 2024 -
May 31, 2025

Focus Area

School Readiness

Organization

FIRST

Description

To support FIRST’s continued growth and improvements to digital infrastructure.

Grant Amount

$750,000

Grant Period

November 1, 2023 -
October 31, 2026

Focus Area

Future Readiness

Organization

Fishtank Learning

Description

To scale Fishtank Learning’s reach and impact by expanding usage of its ELA curriculum and advancing development of its math program.

Grant Amount

$1,000,000

Grant Period

November 1, 2025 -
October 31, 2027

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

Fishtank Learning

Description

To support Fishtank Learning in understanding and strengthening the impact of its HQIM on student outcomes.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Grant Period

September 1, 2024 -
August 31, 2025

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

FutureEd at Georgetown University

Description

To support the creation of an updated Attendance Playbook and influence adoption of evidence-based policies on absenteeism.

Grant Amount

$157,500

Grant Period

November 1, 2025 -
December 31, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

FutureEd at Georgetown University

Description

To support FutureEd in expanding its work focused on high-impact tutoring and chronic absenteeism.

Grant Amount

$440,000

Grant Period

October 1, 2024 -
September 30, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

FutureEd at Georgetown University

Description

To scale adoption of high-dosage tutoring efforts by supporting FutureEd to produce and disseminate narrative-style success stories of high-dosage tutoring efforts from across the country.

Grant Amount

$290,000

Grant Period

April 1, 2023 -
June 30, 2024

Focus Area

School Success

Organization

GreatSchools

Description

To support the integration of chronic absenteeism data into school profiles on the GreatSchools platform.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Grant Period

July 1, 2025 -
June 30, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

GreenLight Fund

Description

To support the expansion of the GreenLight network into Newark, filling gaps in Newark’s social services and making measurable impact on the lives of low-income residents.

Grant Amount

$1,000,000

Grant Period

March 15, 2022 -
March 14, 2027

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Description

To support an RCT examining the impact of predictive AI content in young children’s media in supporting children’s science learning in the short- and longer-term.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Grant Period

April 1, 2025 -
June 30, 2027

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Harvard University

Description

To conduct two rigorous studies of statewide policy initiatives in Ohio & Alabama, build state capacity to conduct and use research, and influence evidence-based policy in these and other states.

Grant Amount

$975,000

Grant Period

November 1, 2025 -
October 31, 2027

Focus Area

Other

Organization

Harvard University

Description

To research factors that affect economic opportunity and identify policies that promote upward mobility.

Grant Amount

$4,000,000

Grant Period

September 1, 2023 -
August 31, 2026

Focus Area

Other

Organization

HealthySteps

Description

To strengthen HealthySteps’ ability to use implementation and outcomes data to improve program quality at scale, in support of healthy child development and long-term sustainability.

Grant Amount

$250,000

Grant Period

June 1, 2026 -
May 31, 2027

Focus Area

School Readiness

Organization

HighScope

Description

To develop and test targeted professional learning improvements to strengthen HighScope’s implementation quality.

Grant Amount

$200,000

Grant Period

March 1, 2026 -
February 28, 2027

Focus Area

School Readiness

Organization

I-LABS

Description

To support and disseminate I-LABS research on families' roles in early childhood development.

Grant Amount

$3,238,850

Grant Period

May 1, 2021 -
June 30, 2024

Focus Area

School Readiness
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